The Food Network Recipe

Essays on Cooking, Celebrity and Competition
Herausgeber: Newman, Emily L.; Witsell, Emily

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

When the Television Food Network launched in 1993, its programming was conceived as educational: it would teach people how to cook well, with side trips into the economics of food and healthy living. Today, however, the network is primarily known for splashy celebrity chefs and spirited competition shows. These new essays explore how the Food Network came to be known for consistently providing comforting programming that offers an escape from reality, where the storyline is just as important as the food that is being created. It dissects some of the biggest personalities that emerged from the Food Network itself, such as Guy Fieri, and offers a critical examination of a variety of chefs' feminisms and the complicated nature of success. Some writers posit that the Food Network is creating an engaging, important dialogue about modes of instruction and education, and others analyze how the Food Network presents locality and place through the sharing of food culture with the viewing public. This book will bring together these threads as it explores the rise, development, and unique adaptability of the Food Network.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781476679082
• ISBN-10: 1476679088
• Artikelnr.: 64186766

Autorenporträt

Emily L. Newman is associate professor of art history at Texas A&M University-Commerce, specializing in contemporary art, popular culture, and gender studies. She lives in McKinney, Texas. Emily Witsell is research librarian and coordinator of reference and instruction at Wofford College. She lives in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents
Introduction
Emily L. Newman and Emily Witsell
Celebrity and Fandom
The Journey to Flavortown: Guy Fieri, Relatability and Transformative
Fandom
Katharine McCain
Alton Brown, Good Eats and Audience Engagement: Relevance of Parasocial
Principles
Jacki Fitzpatrick and Felix Nora Morgan
To the Victor Go the Spoils? Man v. Food as Consumptive and Competitive
Spectacle
Brad Klypchak
Feminism and Its Complications
The Pioneer Woman: Big House on the Prairie
Leslie Stratyner
Paula Deen and Fanny Cradock: The Parallel Declines of Two Grandes Dames of
Television Cookery
Marc Muneal
Culinary Crimes at the Shame Station: The Food Network's Role in Policing
Indulgent Women
E. Vivian Leigh
Pedagogy and Edutainment
The Pedagogy of the Food Network
Erin M. Guydish Buchholz
Cooking Class: The Food Network's Teaching Tools
Pamela J. Monaco
Cutthroat Kitchen and the Performance of Disability
Jason Dorwart
Authenticity
"This is as Mexican as Taco Bell!" Critiquing Authenticity and Whiteness in
Online Comments to the Pioneer Woman's Recipes
Donica O'Malley
The Dislocated Kitchen: The Food Network, Domestic Architecture and the
Virtual Food-Axis
Brenda S. Gardenour Walter
No Country for Old Food? Food Network and the Making of Italian Food
Culture
Francesco Buscemi
Bibliography
About the Contributors
Index